Elliott Special Risks

2009-11-30T13:04:00.000-08:00

These photos are courtesy of Lisa Skillen of Toole Peet & Co. Limited, Calgary, Alberta.

Lisa said, "This happened on my recent trip to the island of Cyprus in September. We were in Nicosia (Europe’s only militarily divided city). We were across the Green line into the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the sky started to look really dark and a few rain droplets started to fall. In a matter of minutes, golf ball sized hail was falling and we were hiding under an awning to escape the rain/wind/hail. The wind was so strong we thought it best to keep to our little awning until things cooled down. Once the rain stopped we headed back across the green line to our car (about two blocks away) and the road back to our hotel was covered in palm trees and all sorts of debris. It took us 2 hours to go 2 blocks. There had been a Tornado in Nicosia that injured 17 and left 10 homeless, fortunately there were no fatalities. This poor Mercedes was one of the injured."

2009-11-30T12:56:00.000-08:00

Photos taken on Oct. 29, 2009 @ Dufferin/Steeles in Toronto.

Calvin Kwok of Financial Service Brokers Ltd. in Concord, Ontario submited theses pictures to us.

2009-11-30T12:50:00.000-08:00

Tom Sear of H.L. Sear Insurance Ltd. in Charlottetown, PEI submited theses pictures to us.

2009-11-30T12:42:00.001-08:00

This was an accident that took place in November 2008. Driver slammed through the wall at the Royal Bank of Canada located in Turner Valley. I took these photos minutes after the accident. There were a few minor injuries inside the offices of the bank, and the driver was not seriously injured.

These pictures are courtesy of Melodi Joanette of Western Financial Group, Alberta, Ontario.

2009-11-30T12:36:00.000-08:00

Dominique Gendron-Curtis of Marsh Canada Limited in Moncton, New Brunswick submited theses pictures to us.

2009-11-30T12:08:00.001-08:00

These photos are courtesy of Jackie Ferrier of Padfield-Nelson Insurance Brokers Limited, Ontario.
Jackie said, "Our client was on the bridge deck finishing machine, yellow machine stretched across the wet concrete, when this bridge collapsed last fall."

2009-09-16T12:54:00.000-07:00

Chris Lorne of Aon Reed Stenhouse in Edmonton, Alberta was certainly fast to the scene of this accident — he was a passenger on the bus!
“This happened in Banff a couple of years ago,” he says. “We were on the bus on the way back down from Sunshine, it was snowing, and the driver was going too fast. Fortunately nobody was hurt, but the driver was pretty shook up!”

2008-07-25T12:16:00.000-07:00

This picture is courtesy of Scott Riddell of DG Dunbar Insurance out of London, Ontario.
Scott writes, "Here is a picture from an accident involving a truck that was absolutely wiped out after another truck lost a load of logs while passing on a logging road. As you can see all that is left of the truck is the axles as well as the trailer. You don’t want to know the rest of the details but suffice is to say that the driver didn’t make it."

2008-07-25T12:08:00.000-07:00

These photos are courtesy of Sally Koponyas of Johnston Meier Insurance out of Penticton, British Columbia.

Sally writes, "July 2, 2008, our Johnston Meier Okanagan Falls office became an unexpected drive through location.
A vehicle came through the vacant shop next door to us and right through our wall. Thankfully nobody was sitting at the desk beside the wall."

2008-07-25T11:58:00.000-07:00

These photos are courtesy of Theresa Cote of Mink Insurance Services in Midland.

Theresa writes, "Yes, accidents happen to the best of us....sometimes in the line of duty..
A little occurrence a few feet from my office window one Saturday Morning. To the best of my knowledge no one was injured.
I'm just glad I wasn't in that morning."

2008-07-25T11:48:00.000-07:00

These photos are courtesy of David H. Ross of Ross, Beaton, Vendetti Insurance Brokers out of Sudbury.

David writes, "this is a brand new Atlas Copco Roc D9 drill that we lost to the bottom of a Parry Sound quarry in June.$565,000. insured value, gone in a matter of seconds. Nobody hurt...the operator jumped free when the winch system failed, but THIS, is why we sell insurance."

Overturned Crane

2008-04-29T01:15:00.001-07:00

These photos of an overturned crane at a construction site in Markham, Ontario came to us courtesy of Kevin Roy Tower of Cornell Insurance Brokers of Markham and Cathy Lanktree of our Toronto office.